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Development, evaluation and use of a student experience survey in undergraduate science laboratories: the advancing science by enhancing learning in the laboratory student laboratory learning experience survey

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posted on 2024-06-05, 02:28 authored by SC Barrie, RB Bucat, MA Buntine, K Burke da Silva, GT Crisp, AV George, IM Jamie, SH Kable, Kieran LimKieran Lim, SM Pyke, JR Read, MD Sharma, A Yeung
Student experience surveys have become increasingly popular to probe various aspects of processes and outcomes in higher education, such as measuring student perceptions of the learning environment and identifying aspects that could be improved. This paper reports on a particular survey for evaluating individual experiments that has been developed over some 15 years as part of a large national Australian study pertaining to the area of undergraduate laboratories—Advancing Science by Enhancing Learning in the Laboratory. This paper reports on the development of the survey instrument and the evaluation of the survey using student responses to experiments from different institutions in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. A total of 3153 student responses have been analysed using factor analysis. Three factors, motivation, assessment and resources, have been identified as contributing to improved student attitudes to laboratory activities. A central focus of the survey is to provide feedback to practitioners to iteratively improve experiments. Implications for practitioners and researchers are also discussed.

History

Journal

International journal of science education

Volume

37

Pagination

1795-1814

Location

Oxford, Eng.

ISSN

1464-5289

eISSN

1464-5289

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article, C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2015, Taylor and Francis

Issue

11

Publisher

Taylor and Francis